středa 8. ledna 2014

I got this question several times last few days - "hey, you're the
schedule wrangler, you have to know" - as usually this time, we are
working pretty hard on the next Fedora. And Heisenbug was finished
almost month ago - EOL is nearing. But this time we are in a bit
different situation - there are several working groups trying to
redefine, how Fedora should look like in the future and it does not make
sense to create schedule. We need resolution from this effort. It's
planned for January.

Is Fedora 21 going to be
released in the old model way, or new one? Hard to answer right now. But
there's one date - F21 is not going to be released earlier than in
August (and I'd say late August). See FESCo ticket.
What's the reason? As otherwise we would try to hit May timeframe?
Short answe: we want to give the opportunity to the teams that are
smashed by release windmills to work on tooling. Especially as the
Fedora.next proposal stands on more automation to be able to deliver
more products. Especially for QA and release engineering. Of course this
time could be used by anyone! Also there was FESCo decision
to steer release cycle and cadance at least for short term upcoming
release to stick together. In the future, we can end with different
release schedules for different products but automation and lot of
preparation is prerequisite for it.

Other note -
somehow connected to Fedora 21 release cycle, raised by Sirko. What will
be the code name for Fedora 21. And again short answer: null. Not null
as null string but null. Fedora Board decided to end release names process.
It does not mean "no more release names" but it's up to community or
working groups, if anyone wants to step into the role of Name Wrangler
and helps running this process. Or reform it in any way.

January is going to be very interesting month from the point of future Fedora releases - stay tuned!

Btw.
I can see a lot of people and teams missing information on what's going
on, it's really hard for anyone to follow all working groups and what
they are proposing, what FESCo decides, where's the schedule etc. Too
much happening and I'd really like to see better coordination. As Base
WG member I came with the idea of broader project meeting - WGs and
other teams representatives to brief on status, work on coordination.
Unfortunately, one more meeting during F20 release cycle would mean divorce :), so let me take a look on it again.